Writer-director Emmanuel Marre exposes the fine lines between ambition and sin in this fresh and imaginative story about a Vichy government loyalist during France’s Nazi occupation. In the early 1940s, businessman Henri Marre (a brilliant Swann Arlaud) arrives in the new seat of the collaborationist French government in Vichy, France, armed with a self-published manifesto on government management practices and intent on making a name for himself in the newly formed cabinet of Marshal Pétain. Abandoning his wife and children in Nazi-occupied Paris, Marre’s restless ambition will bring him to the brink as the Vichy government incrementally takes on the Nazi agenda. Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

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